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(UNIAN) ---
Finland's border patrol service has prohibited crossing the
border with Russia on a bicycle, MTV3 TV channel reported on Sunday
citing the Lapland border patrol service, according to Russian news
agency TASS.
"It is
allowed to cross the border only by car now. The measure was taken
due to the situation when more and more refugees are coming to
Finland from the Russian territory on bicycles," TASS wrote.
The measure will
be enforced only on northern border checkpoints Salla and Raja
Jooseppi.
The border patrol
service said that the measure was introduced because "riding
bicycles in the winter is a threat to cyclists themselves and other
participants of road traffic."
From Wednesday to
Friday no asylum seekers came to Finland's border checkpoints.
On Saturday a car
came to the border, and five out of six passengers filed for asylum
in Finland. The sixth passenger was a Russian citizen who did not
file for asylum but is now suspected of organizing illegal
transportation of refugees across the border.
According to the
Interior Ministry, up to 35,000 refugees may arrive to Finland by the
end of 2015. The ministry earlier expected as much as 50,000 refugees
to arrive. In 2014, around 4,000 refugees arrived in Finland. Since
the start of 2015, more than 32,000 migrants came to Finland, mostly
from Iraq. Most refugees come through the border with Sweden, while
more than 600 people arrived from the Finnish-Russian border at
checkpoints of Salla and Raja Jooseppi.
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